Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers

We thank Radu Ban, Bob Erikson, Raphael Franck, Chap Lawson, Gabe Lenz, Andrea Prat, Carlo Rosa, Jesse Shapiro, Michiko Ueda and seminar participants at Bristol, Cambridge, Columbia, Durham, Rome (Ente Einaudi), LSE, MIT, Milan, Suffolk, the World Meeting of the Public Choice Societies (Amsterdam) for helpful comments. We also give a very special thanks to Michael Naber for making the data collection possible. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.